Celebration of bonsai switches to new site

For its 37th show, the Columbus Bonsai Society is changing venues.

Asheville-area Home & Garden calendar

Send items for the home and garden calendar to Nancy Sluder at Nsluder@Citizen-Times.com two weeks before the event. Or mail to Nancy Sluder, Asheville Citizen-Times, P.O. Box 2090, Asheville, NC 28802.

School Board gives Trollinger high rating

Owenby: "Dr. Trollinger received a wonderful evaluation from the board. Overall, he scored as highly as you can score."

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Green Scene: A Japanese garden's natural serenity

The objective of a Japanese garden is to establish a space that creates a mood of serenity and symbolism inspired by nature, designed in a very controlled fashion. Typically this includes the use of rocks, gravel, water, statuary, bridges, wood and some plants that appear to be hundreds of years old. In a traditional Japanese garden, elements are representational of nature in human proportions ...